On 24 Oct 2021, at 05:55, Sonic Purity <sonicpur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...i have a Big Picture question about whether perhaps my entire approach is
> off base.
It is. There are several languages that are good for text editing, and
AppleScript is not among them. The conciseness of your desiderata below should
be matched in your script.
> I want to preserve whatever markup exists as it is, to the right of my
> delimiter #BARRIER#. To the left, in the actual title="", each </?em> should
> be replaced with * and each </?strong> with **, and any other tags should be
> removed.
BBEdit’s regular expressions are not much different from Perl’s, on which they
are based. Here is a simple Perl script that will do what you demand:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#Save in ../Text Filters/; run from palette
while (<>) { #read line by line
my ($left, $right) = split "#BARRIER";
$left =~ s~</?em>~\*~g; # s~x~y~g means substitute y for x globally
$left =~ s~</?strong>~\*\*~g;
$right =~ s~<[^>]+?>~~g;
print $left . $right;
}
#END
With your document frontmost, try running the script above from the Text
Filters palette after saving it as ***.pl in the proper folder; to open this
run this line in Terminal:
cd; open Library/Application\ Support/BBedit/Text*
Have fun !
JD
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